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SICF24 | Open Call For Creators

2022.11.1 - 2023.2.9 (Open Call)


The open call for exhibitors for SICF24 has ended. Thank you for your many applications. Exhibitors will be announced in mid-March.

Launched in 2000, Spiral Independent Creators Festival (SICF) is an open-call art festival that aspires to discover, foster, and support emerging artists and designers. Organized by Spiral, an arts complex in Tokyo’s Aoyama, SICF brings together creative talents across different fields and disciplines to present their work. The festival attracts a wide variety of visitors from the creative industries, including gallery owners, curators, collectors, buyers, and media professionals. Over the years, SICF has continued to expand as a platform for artistic activities, through encounters between new talents and visitors.

At the end of the festival, a series of prizes is announced, including the Judges’ Awards, Semi-Grand Prize, and Grand Prize as well as the Audience Award, which is selected by visitors and the Best Seller Award given to the creator who sold the most items. The winners receive the opportunity to exhibit their work again at Spiral.

Applications are open for ambitious independent creators whose work endeavors to transcend existing values.

APPLY TO SICF24 OR GET MORE INFORMATION 
For more about SICF and to access the application page, please click here .

■  Apply to the EXHIBITION section

Rather painting, sculpture, installation, illustration, graphic design, photography, video, media art, engineering, performance or mixed-media, works challenging existing values of the genre will be exhibited for 3 days in booths, each measuring W1,650 x D1,650 x H2,400mm, where creators will be able to express themselves freely.

CALL FOR CREATORS

1(Tue) November 2022 ~ 9(Thu)February 2023
※ The call will close at 8PM (JST)

【WEB Application】The application form completed will be accepted up to 9(Thu)February 2023 at 8PM (JST)
【Postal Application】The application form completed shall arrive by 9(Thu)February 2023.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
・All nationality, age and type of work will be accepted.
・The applicant must be present at the venue during the event.
・The applicants may be an individual or a group.

HOW TO APPLY
In order to apply, please register the necessary information in the application form and upload the exhibition plan and past works images on the web platform or mail it to SICF office.
* Application form and the necessary documents can be downloaded from here (SICF website).

SCREENING PROCESS
The results of the application screening will be announced to the applicants by e-mail in the beginning of March. The list of participants will be published on SICF website around the middle of March 2023.
Those who passed the screening process will be invited to exhibit at SICF24.

■ SICF24 (24th Spiral Independent Creators Festival)
 

EXHIBITION

DATE
Group A : 2(Tue)– 4(Thu – NH)May, 2023[50 exhibitors]11:00-19:00
Group B : 5(Fri- NH)– 7(Sun)May, 2023 [50 exhibitors]11:00-19:00
※ On the first days of the event, 2(Tue)May , 5(Fri – NH)May the venue will be open to the public from 13:00
※ On the last days of the event, 4(Thu – NH)May, 7(Sun)May the venue will close to the public at 18:00

Set up and removal schedule
・Group A: Set up: 2(Tue )May, 2023 7:00-12:30/Removal: 4(Thu – NH) 18:00 – 20:00
・Group B: Set up: 5(Fri – NH)May, 2023 7:00-12:30/Removal: 7(Sun) 18:00 – 20:00

VENUE
Spiral Hall(Spiral 3F)
5-6-23, Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, 107-0062, Tokyo (Japan)
Exit B1 and B3 of Omotesando Station (Ginza, Hanzomon and Chiyoda Lines)
Click here for the access map

AWARDS CEREMONY
7 (Sun) May, 2023   20:00(pending)

EXHIBITION FEE / 3 days
¥48,400 (tax included)   
[Electricity supply] ¥11,000(tax included) ※up to 1500W
※ The fee is the same for individuals or groups.
※ The electricity fee will be charged if you use electricity whether it is for your own device charger or for a part of your exhibit.
※ Lighting will be installed from the ceiling of the venue, it will lighten the booth entirely.
If you are considering individual lighting for your work, please prepare your own material and apply for the electricity supply option.
※ Application is free. The exhibition fee will be required after the applicant passed the screening process.

BOOTH SIZE
Spiral Hall will host 50 booths.
SIZE: w1.650 x d1.650 x h2.400mm  WALLS COLOR:white

CONDITIONS
・The visitors admission to Spiral Hall (Spiral 3F) area will be charged.
・The exhibitors who sell their works will be charged 15% of the price of the work in total by SICF office as handling fee. The shipment of the works is at the charge of the exhibitor.

AWARDS
・Grand Prize
The winner will be invited to present a solo show at Spiral (500,000 yen will be prepared for the exhibition)
The winner will be introduced on Spiral web platforms
・Semi-Grand Prize/Judges’ Awards/Audience Award/Daily Art Award 
The winners will participate to SICF24 Winners Exhibition (group exhibition)
* Chosen by Spiral, the Daily Art Award is a prize given to a creator presenting works of art easy to incorporate in the everyday life.
* Due to the closure of the facility, the SICF24 attribution of WACOAL STUDYHALL KYOTO Award is suspended. We do not plan to change the total number of awards, and are considering the content of a new award. We will announce it as soon as it is decided.

JUDGES
Kodama Kanazawa/Curator
Tamae Hirokawa/Designer
Motosuke Mandai/Architect
Daisuke Yamashiro/Artist, Video Director
Ikuko Kato/ Curator, Spiral

■ Apply to the MARKET section

MARKET_w769.jpegDesign and crafts pieces as well as edible items and more, products designed to grant a more artistic way of living, eating, and dressing, will be displayed for three days and put on sale in an individual area composed of a counter and the wall behind, measuring W1,500 x H2,400 mm.

CALL FOR CREATORS

1(Tue) November 2022 ~ 9(Thu)February 2023
※ The call will close at 8PM (JST)

【WEB Application】The application form completed will be accepted up to 9(Thu)February 2023 at 8PM (JST)
【Postal Application】The application form completed shall arrive by 9(Thu)February 2023.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

・All nationality, age and type of work will be accepted.
・The applicant must be present at the venue during the event.
・The applicants may also apply as a brand or a shop.
・The items exhibited must be available for sale.

HOW TO APPLY
In order to apply, please register the necessary information in the application form and upload the exhibition plan, exhibited works and past works images on the web platform or mail it to SICF office.

* Application form and the necessary documents can be downloaded from here (SICF website).

SCREENING PROCESS
The results of the application screening will be announced to the applicants by e-mail in the beginning of March. The list of participants will be published on SICF website around the middle of March 2023.
Those who passed the screening process will be invited to exhibit at SICF24.

■ SICF24 (24th Spiral Independent Creators Festival)
 

DATE
Group A : 2(Tue)– 4(Thu – NH)May, 2023 11:00-20:00
Group B : 5(Fri- NH)– 7(Sun)May, 2023 11:00-20:00
※ We are planning to host 35 exhibitors per group. However, the number of exhibitors selected may change due to the circumstances.

Set up and removal schedule
・Group A: Set up: 2(Tue)May, 2023 7:30-10:00/Removal: 4(Thu – NH) 20:00 – 22:00
・Group B: Set up: 5(Fri- NH)May, 2023 7:30-10:00/Removal: 7(Sun) 20:00 – 22:00

 

VENUE
Spiral Garden(Spiral 1F)
5-6-23, Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, 107-0062, Tokyo (Japan)
Exit B1 and B3 of Omotesando Station (Ginza, Hanzomon and Chiyoda Lines)
Click here for the access map

 

AWARDS CEREMONY
7 (Sun) May, 2023   20:00(pending)

 

EXHIBITION FEE / 3 days
¥55,000 (tax included)
【Electricity supply】 ¥5,500(tax included) ※up to 500W
※ The fee is the same for individuals or groups.
※ The electricity fee will be charged if you use electricity whether it is for your own device charger or for a part of your exhibit.
※ Lighting will be installed from the ceiling of the venue, it will lighten the wall and the counter entirely. If you are considering individual lighting for your work, please prepare your own material and apply for the electricity supply option.
※ Application is free. The exhibition fee will be required after the applicant passed the screening process.

 

BOOTH SIZE
※ COUNTER 【A】:w1500mm×d600mm×h900mm
※ COUNTER 【B】:w1500mm×d600mm×h700mm
* The applicant can select either one of them.
WALL SIZE: w1,500 mm x h2,400 mm
WALL & COUNTER COLOR:white

 

CONDITIONS
・Spiral Garden (Spiral 1F) is an admission free area.
・The exhibitors will be charged 20% of the price of the items by SICF office as handling fee. The client’s payment is to be made at one of the register located within the venue.

 

AWARDS
・Grand Prize
The winner will be invited to present a solo show at Spiral (300,000 yen will be prepared for the exhibition).
The winner’s product will be put on sale on Spiral Online Store.
The winner will be introduced on Spiral digital platforms.
・Semi-Grand Prize/Judges’ Awards/Best seller Award
The winner will participate to a commercial exhibition at Spiral.


JUDGES
Keita Suzuki/Designer, Creative Director, PRODUCT DESIGN CENTER
Mana+Takashi Kobayashi/Interior Architect, Design Office IMA

Masaru Suzuki/Textile Designer
Naoko Nishimura/Senior Buyer, Manager, Product Merchandise Division, Retail Sales Department, Spiral

About Spiral
Spiral draws on its wide creative network to produce, around the concept of fusing life and art, its own projects and exhibitions and operates a wide range of businesses nationwide, among them, the lifestyle shop “+S” Spiral Market. Spiral is committed to build strong and lasting relationships with the creators we discovered at SICF, actively offering them to participate in our projects, regardless of whether they have won an award or not.

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